St. Mary’s Cathedral in Valencia, Spain. / Credit: Pere López, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Madrid, Spain, Sep 3, 2025 / 05:15 am (CNA).
The Observatory for Religious Freedom and Conscience (OLRC by its Spanish acronym) in Spain decried that it was “a black August” with seven cases of vandalism and desecration against Catholic churches reported in recent weeks.
On Aug. 11, black paint was spilled on a set of steps at St. Catherine parish in the town of Rute in Cordoba province, just days before the patron saint’s feast day.
